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The way which different fields of study are defined is determined as much by historical convention as by the present day
meaning of the words.
Thus the traditional description of Natural Science is the study of the physical, nonhuman aspects of the
world. As a group, the natural sciences are distinguished from theology and the
social sciences, on the one hand, and from the arts and humanities on the other. Natural sciences
generally attempt to explain the workings of the world via natural processes rather than divine processes. The term natural science is also used to identify "science" as a discipline
following the scientific method.
Alongside this traditional usage, more recently the words "natural sciences" are sometimes used in a way more closely matching
their everyday meaning. In this sense "natural sciences" can be an alternative phrase for biological sciences, involved in biological processes), and are distinguished from the physical sciences (involved in the physical and chemical laws underlying
the universe).
Natural sciences
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